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  1. TD Fermenting

    Wild plum juice wine.

    Thanks Dawg, always room to learn, appreciate the thoughts.
  2. TD Fermenting

    Wild plum juice wine.

    Hi folks. This looked more appropriate to tag onto than to start my own thread. @Ivywood, how is your plum wine doing? I'm a relative newbie and have made about 8 batches of grape wine from kits and then frozen grapes/juice over the last 18 months. I got tired of cleaning up my neighbors’...
  3. TD Fermenting

    Wine lover becoming winemaker

    @Kevin B, I have been very happy with WGD service and product. I have some of their 2020 Sauv Blanc sur lies in a 5 Gal carboy and will clarify and bottle in the next 3 weeks. I have a 5 gal pail of Cab Suav that fermented in a week, added MLB when SpGr was done to 1.010 and then hand-pressed...
  4. TD Fermenting

    Wine lover becoming winemaker

    Welcome to the community. I am in the same experience place as you are, and have found a lot of help here at WMT. We had our first visit to Paso Robles and SLO right before the pandemic shut everything down and really enjoyed all of it! I actually started with “The way to make wine” by...
  5. TD Fermenting

    Merry Christmas!

    Happy holidays and wishes for a healthy and enjoyable and hopefully more sociable 2021. I admit that making wine is a COVID induced hobby, and I really appreciate the wealth of knowledge and cheer from all of you. I started with 3 x 1 gallon kits (1 Pinot Grigio, 2 Cab Sauv) following directions...
  6. TD Fermenting

    Experience with the Sur-Lie additive

    I’m doing 5 gallons of Sauv Blanc from frozen grapes from WGD and intend to do sur lie aging on the fine lees for a few months. Just did first rack after primary fermentation last week. My biggest challenge is that the carboy is totally full and stirring will be fun! Good to know there’s a...
  7. TD Fermenting

    Lysozyme

    Great and helpful thread. I have 5 gallons of sauv blanc made from frozen juice from WGD. Supplier numbers were TA of 0.70, pH 3.37, Brix 24.0. I measured pH at 3.5, brix at 23.5, SpGr of 1.100. Supplier included 10 gm Tartrate which I added before primary. Immediately before primary pH was 3.6...
  8. TD Fermenting

    WineXpert Winexpert Eclipse Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel

    Great and thanks everyone.
  9. TD Fermenting

    WineXpert Winexpert Eclipse Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel

    So it was a small disaster rocking after fermentation with loose skins. The cheesecloth strainer didn't stay on the bucket and fell into the wine with a big and messy splash! Ended up actually hand pressing the pomace. I think I've learned a better way to do it. I still like the idea of extra...
  10. TD Fermenting

    WineXpert Winexpert Eclipse Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel

    Started the fermentation on Wednesday. Decided to let the skins go free along with the oak chips that came the kit. Didn’t add quite as much water as I didn’t want the SG to get too low. Total volume to start about 5 3/4 gallons, starting SG 1.090. The room where I keep my wine stuff is pretty...
  11. TD Fermenting

    WineXpert Winexpert Eclipse Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel

    Thanks for all the advice and help, much appreciated. Finishing a wine tasting weekend (safely!). Will update once I get fermentation started.
  12. TD Fermenting

    WineXpert Winexpert Eclipse Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel

    Just read through the entire thread, thanks for the collective knowledge! I am a rookie winemaker, have done two kits from WE so far, a 1 gallon Pinot Grigio and and 1 gallon Cab Sauv. The white is very drinkable already (2 months in) and just bottled the cab last weekend, nothing special yet...
  13. TD Fermenting

    Post your labels here

    First wine, first label. Definitely a little meh, but homage to 4 legged friends, past and present. Avoids family complaints about being excluded or included. ;)
  14. TD Fermenting

    What are you making and what have you made ???

    Another new winemaker from the Pandemic. WE Pinot Grigio (1 gallon) just bottled yesterday, pretty palatable for first try. Followed kit directions except I racked it after only 10 days when Sp Grav was already down to 0.996. Racked it twice because I needed some practice siphoning to avoid all...
  15. TD Fermenting

    Newbie from Washington

    Hi everyone. Lots of experience drinking wines, now trying to understand more by making them. Starting with a couple 1 gallon Winexpert kits, Pinot Grigio and Cab Sauv, then onto a WineExpert Lodi Zin. May get the guts to do some real fruit this fall. Looks like a ton of experience and...
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